...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
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...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
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